Phone remounts micro SD card every time I turn the device on (Moto E5 Play)

[TheRealSupereor]

I have noticed an issue with my Moto E5 Play phone where whenever I turn the device off and turn it back on later, the micro SD card has to remount. I upgraded from a 16gb micro SD card to a 64gb Samsung micro SD card a few days ago, and the old SD card did not have this problem. Since I can still access everything on the SD card, this wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't for RetroArch playlists; I have to rescan the games I have on my SD card in RetroArch everytime I power my phone on, and this can be really annoying.

Does anyone know a way to fix this?

 

[ManiacJoe]

Need some clarification here.

Are you saying that the SD card gets remounted automatically during the boot process (this is normal and expected) or that you need to manually unmount and remount the SD card to get it to work after each boot?

 

[TheRealSupereor]

Need some clarification here.

Are you saying that the SD card gets remounted automatically during the boot process (this is normal and expected) or that you need to manually unmount and remount the SD card to get it to work after each boot?

The card gets automatically remounted every time I restart the phone. It's kinda hard to explain; with my last SD card, it felt like my phone "remembered" it had an SD card inside of it, and the phone would start without giving me a notification about an SD card. With this SD card, it seems like every time my phone starts, it's like "Oh, right, there's an SD card here", and I get the SD card notification.

I might be getting some things wrong here, since RetroArch is really the only thing that I'm having a problem with, but from what I can tell, that seems to be the issue. And if I'm supposed to get a SD card notification every time I turn the phone on, then I have to wonder what was up my last SD card.

Edit: Also, a new thing I just noticed; whenever I try to use ASTRO File Manager to change something on the SD card, I have to give it permissions to read and write after every reboot, which is also something my old SD card didn't do.

 

[Rukbat]

Your last phone didn't notify you that it was mounting the card, the new one does.

The card isn't part of the system storage, so it has to get mounted (Android runs on Linux, and that's how Linux works).

As for giving Astro permission, that old phone must have been old. Apps don't automatically have permission to write to the SD card any more.

In both cases (RetroArch and Astro), email the developers and ask them to fix their respective problem.

 

[TheRealSupereor]

For anyone that has this same problem in the future, I found the solution. My computer does not have an SD card slot, so I had to use someone's laptop to do this, but all you have to do is reformat the SD card from NTFS to FAT32.